Mental health among external migrants in South Africa

Over the last 30 years, South Africa has been home to a myriad of different scholarly attempts to engage with the topic of wellbeing. In the growing field of wellbeing research, as this edited volume shows, significant methodological progress has been made in certain areas. within the field of quality of life research, the country has acquired a respected international reputation. Although past South African quality of life research has been concerned with a wide variety of different kinds of people, one group has been largely ignored: external migrants. International migration has become an important feature of life in South Africa during the last few decades, and more than 2 million external migrants now live in the country (UNDP-ESPD 2020).